Radical Acceptance in the Pearl of Africa
December 17, 2015 9:31 AM Subscribe
Cleopatra Kambugu was outed as a trans woman following the passage of extremely punitive anti-gay bills in Uganda. She, her boyfriend, and her family are the subject of a series of short documentaries about life in East Africa for openly LGBTQI individuals. "I was born here - a land with beautiful mountains and deep dark forest - a country blessed with diversity in ethnicity, gender, flora and fauna. Yet in all this richness, as a people and as a nation, we still struggle to recognize and appreciate this diversity." links and videos contain some disturbing transphobic and homophobic rhetoric and violence.
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M7's missus is an Evangelical with many influential friends. I've often wondered if that's the way all this got as anti as it has become.
posted by infini at 9:53 AM on December 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by infini at 9:53 AM on December 17, 2015 [1 favorite]
Infini, God Loves Uganda is a pretty excellent documentary that's explicitly about the connection between evangelicals and Museveni and legislation, Call Me Kuchu touches on it as well.
posted by ChuraChura at 10:18 AM on December 17, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by ChuraChura at 10:18 AM on December 17, 2015 [3 favorites]
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- Uganda's anti-gay legislation previously on metafilter: Anti-LGBT legislation in Uganda and US-based Evangelicals; David Kato's death.
posted by ChuraChura at 9:34 AM on December 17, 2015